Greetings, esteemed Hub residents and casual visitors. This series of articles will discuss building a simple network for a firm that is not overly demanding on its IT infrastructure but nonetheless needs to provide its employees with quality Internet connectivity, access to shared files, and VPN access to their workplace and […]
Scanning documents over the network seems to exist on one hand, but on the other, it hasn't become a common practice, unlike network printing. Administrators still install drivers, and the setup for remote scanning is individual for each scanner model. What technologies are currently available, and does such a scenario have a future? The installed driver or direct access […]
In addition to the early review of the Radeon RX 5700 series graphics cards, a review of the Ryzen 3000 processors was also published, although it was supposed to be released only on Sunday, July 7. This time, the German resource PCGamesHardware.de stood out, which, of course, soon removed the page with the review of the Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 9 3900X processors, but screenshots of the charts with the results […]
The international antivirus company ESET warns of a new malware program that threatens users of torrent sites. The malware is called GoBot2/GoBotKR. It is distributed under the guise of various games and applications, as well as pirated copies of movies and series. After downloading such content, the user receives files that appear harmless at first glance. However, hidden within them is the malware. The activation of the malware occurs after clicking […]
Spotify continues to test a lighter version of its mobile client, which started last year. The developers aim to expand their presence in regions where internet speeds are low, and users mainly own entry-level and mid-range mobile devices. Recently, the Spotify Lite app has been officially available on the Google Play digital content store in 36 countries, and in the future […]
In the published June 25 release of the Strong_password gem 0.7, a malicious change (CVE-2019-13354) was identified that loads and executes external code controlled by an unknown attacker, hosted on Pastebin. The total number of project downloads is 247,000, while version 0.6 has around 38,000. The number of downloads for the malicious version is listed as 537, but it is unclear how accurate this is, considering that […]
After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released Linux kernel 5.2. Among the most notable changes are: case-insensitive mode for Ext4, separate system calls for mounting FS, drivers for Mali 4xx/6xx/7xx GPUs, the ability to process changes to sysctl values in BPF programs, the device-mapper module dm-dust, protection against MDS attacks, support for Sound Open Firmware for DSP, […]
Good day. Today we will talk about a tabletop role-playing system of our own design, inspired by both console Eastern games and our experience with Western tabletop giants. The latter turned out to be not as fantastical as one might hope — cumbersome in terms of rules, featuring somewhat sterile heroes and items, overloaded with bookkeeping. So why not write something of our own? [ … ]
— Didn't you tell him? — What could I say?! – Tatiana exclaimed, genuinely indignant. – As if I know anything about your silly quest! — Why silly? – Sergey was equally surprised. — Because we will never find ourselves a new IT director this way! – Tatiana, as usual, started to blush from […]
The organization is abandoning Microsoft software and other commercial products. We discuss the reasons and talk about other companies that are switching to open source software. Photo — Devon Rogers — Unsplash Their Reasons For the last 20 years, CERN has used Microsoft products — operating system, cloud platform, Office suites, Skype, and more. However, the IT company denied the lab the status of an 'academic organization', […]
In the previous issue, I described the network automation framework. According to feedback, for some people, even this first approach to the problem has already clarified some issues. And this makes me very happy, because our goal in this cycle is not to smear Ansible with Python scripts but to build a system. This framework sets the order in which we will delve into […]
SDSM has ended, but the uncontrollable desire to write remains. For many years, our brother suffered from mundane tasks, crossing his fingers before commits and losing sleep due to nightly rollbacks. But the dark times are coming to an end. With this article, I will begin a series about how I envision automation. Along the way, we will explore the stages of automation, variable storage, design formalization, RestAPI, […]